My Passover press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – From the university campuses of Assyria to the thoroughfares of Ur to...
That IACR preprint
For those who don’t yet know from their other social media: a week ago the cryptographer...
Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award!
I can’t find it now, but nearly 20 years ago, in the midst of an unusually...
And yet quantum computing continues to progress
Pissing away my life in a haze of doomscrolling, sporadic attempts to “parent” two rebellious kids,...
Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter
Dear Twitter Anti-Zionists, For five months, ever since Oct. 7, I’ve read you obsessively. While my...
Never go to “Planet Word” in Washington DC
In fact, don’t try to take kids to Washington DC if you can possibly avoid it....
On being faceless
Update: Alright, I’m back in. (After trying the same recovery mechanisms that didn’t work before, but...
The Problem of Human Specialness in the Age of AI
Here, as promised in my last post, is a written version of the talk I delivered...
On whether we’re living in a simulation
Unrelated Announcement (Feb. 7): Huge congratulations to longtime friend-of-the-blog John Preskill for winning the 2024 John...
Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer?
Unrelated Announcement: The Call for Papers for the 2024 Conference on Computational Complexity is now out!...